Snijeg (Snow) (Snijeg)

Eastern Bosnia, 1997

Come on! - Silence.

When will she start? - Soon, soon.

Avdo?

Avdo didn't have a moustache!

Daddy!

How come you did not recognize Omer right away?

Do it again! Do it again!

Please, do it again!

Let me be. l can't anymore.

Do it like the last time.

Alma, you do it.

Let me do that! - lt's ok.

You're pulling my hair!

What are they doing now?

l don't know.

Faruk.

And Alma!

Will someone replace me? -l will.

Who is Faruk?

Let me see if you'll guess this.

Safija? - No! -Then who?

Guess!

Why are you leaving so early? - Off l go.

Do something else. This is boring!

Alahimanet (Good-bye!)

SNOW

Friday

Safija!

Safija, the morning prayer!

Good morning!

You were in the middle of the prayer...

139 over 90.

l've been feeling pressure in my head all morning long.

Measure it again!

130 over 85.

lt's stuffy in here...

Good-bye.

Close the door.

Alma!

Put that bowl in it's place.

l cannot spend the whole day waiting for it to fall...

Alahimanet.

Just a little bit here...

That's it...

As-Salamu 'Alaykum -Alaykum As-Salam.

Here they are, still hot. - Masha'Allah! Thank you...

Again? -Yes. lt was never longer.

He was shaking for the entire night, dreaming.

He got really scared.

lf he could just tell us...

You will tell us one day, won't you?

He will. With God's help...

Need some help?

Why are you so nervous?

Do you have a cigarette?

One basin - one cigarette.

Too expensive.

You can't have this.

A gift from Magnus? - Why do you care?

Want some make up instead?

OK. l'll take that red eye shadow.

l'll bring it over in the afternoon.

She is spraying it all over me...

Don't quarrel. Open the plums nicely.

Alma, the last time l read from my cup l saw a huge scarecrow.

This big!

Would you believe that l burnt my skirt on the same day.

The one for the beach! lt was brand new!

This is parching me!

Nadija, it's burning!

You brat!

What's up with Jasmina? - Go help your mum!

Good morning, dear...

l dreamt that Daddy returned, but he did not recognize me...

Watch your fingers!

Daddy will come back, won't he?

Saturday

lmagine we are at the seaside now!

lt's so scary here. A Chetnik could come out ofnowhere.

We lived so well once...

Omer goes off to work, l make some coffee,

have a cigarette, turn on the TV...

''Survival'' was on the TV.

Remember? You know, those serials.

l loved when they were showing those giraffes.

God, how beautiful they are...

Omer was a handsome guy, wasn't he? - He was.

You won't believe what Lejla told me yesterday.

She said that l wouldn't want her fatherto come home!

Can you imagine that? Why would she think that?

Yes, he was her father, but he was also my husband.

Who wouldn't like to have her husband home?

Why don't you tell her the truth? - What could l say?

What if he really survived?

Let's go!

How many plums will they clean today?

lf we only managed to sell two shipments...

We could buy a Yugo from the Serbs for 400 marks!

Drive like ladies...

Merchandise on the roof, two of us in the car.

We could make a real business.

Business!?

l would be happy if we could make enough for cigarettes.

Move back a bit or no one will stop.

Not that far, people will think that l am a hooker!

l have to go to the toilet. -You went a minute ago.

What can l do...

Come with me.

Do you have eyes at all?

Are you ok? -Are you drunk?

l have never seen anybody here.

You can only see bears walking around here.

Yeah, really, bears... - l'll pay for the damage...

You can't afford it!

Of course, he can! What's your name?

Hamza... Here is my ID.

From Zvornik? Alma, he is from the same town as you.

Where are you from? - From Slavno.

From Slavno? -Yes.

Great! l can take you to the crossing if you want.

How did you end up in Slavno? - She got married.

Why isn't your husband pushing the trailer?

He was killed.

They killed all our men.

My entire family was killed. Dad, Mum, my brothers...

How did you survive?

l spent two days lying under dead bodies, and then l escaped...

You see! Maybe some of our men escaped like that.

They would have contacted you by now.

l have no one to call.

What do you do?

l transport furniture from Germany to Bosnia.

How is the business going? - Good, thank God.

And what are you doing?

We make chutney, mixed salad, pickled cabbage,

quince jam, cherry jam... Everything!

How is the sale going? - lt's not going at all...

lt would go well if we had a way to transport our goods.

lf you are interested we can offer you a special price,

that is, if you buy the summer stock.

lt's a deal!

When l drop off the shipment l'll come to you to close it!

On Wednesday?!

What about the damage? -We can forgive that.

Don't worry.

You know that we from Zvornik are men of ourword.

Here. So it won't seem that you walked for nothing.

Thank you.

lf you knew how quickly he was driving?!

l wouldn't be surprised if it was a hundred per hour!

Now, a hundred...

When he hit us l thought we were dead!

So, what did he say?

He'll come on Wednesday to buy all of our products!

lnsha'Allah. (God willing.)

What's with you two... He could have taken you anywhere!

He's our man. From Zvornik.

How could you enter an unknown man's truck...

Are you stupid or what?

What else could we do?

Accept to take the money for the damage and walk home!

l think it is better to have a long-term agreement.

What do they know about trade?

Off l go. Good bye.

l think it was more than just a trade.

He could not get his eyes off our Alma...

l am joking, Safija... Just a joke!

Every joke is half of truth.

Let's go. We are getting up early in the morning.

Where are you going? You haven't had your coffee.

Alahimanet! -Alahimanet!

Don't hold anything against me!

Shame on you! Your husbands body is still warm!

Sunday

Snow!

Nine. - Nine.

How come he didn't suffocate lying under

the corpses forthree days? - Second row?

l don't know, he didn't tell us.

Eleven, twelve... Fourteen.

How did he manage without the food?

Third row?

Where did these glasses come from?

l found them this morning. - Where?

By Hajro's house.

They are Daddy's.

l can tell by this on the side. Daddy's glasses.

You made a mistake.

She didn't. - She did.

Victory!

Sometimes l dream that my room is full of cabbage.

And it is choking me.

lf we could only get rid of all of these fruits and vegetables...

ls Lejla with you? - She's up there.

She's at Hajro's house.

l found some eyeglasses there this morning.

They seem to be Omer's.

You've looked there already... Look over there!

Don't go there! Something might bite you!